"Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Wouldn't the original proposal that had a state machine handle this? > IIRC the original idea was:
> new tuple -> known good -> possibly dead -> known dead Only if you disallow the transition from possibly dead back to known good, which strikes me as a rather large disadvantage. Failed UPDATEs aren't so uncommon that it's okay to have one permanently disable the optimization. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])